Two sixth-graders from the city of Osaka were found safe Tuesday after they strayed away from a school outing on a mountain the previous day. The boy and girl, both from Joei Gakuen Elementary School, reportedly got separated from their group Monday while hiking ...

The Los Angeles Clippers in 2012-13 had the best season in their franchise history, including their times in Buffalo and San Diego. They won a franchise-most 56 games, including 17 straight that was the best in the NBA in four years until the Heat ...

A government education panel submitted a report Tuesday to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urging the nation’s universities to be outward-looking in order to foster global talent among Japanese. Abe in return vowed to work to give Japanese universities the competitive edge they need by ...

What's Trending Now

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development is a great opportunity for Japan to expand its business in Africa, as the resource-rich continent begins to shed its dependence on aid to emerge as an attractive consumer market and a swelling population, according to the ...

A 38-year-old man was stabbed to death in his home in Sakai, Ibaraki Prefecture, and a trail of bloody footprints believed to be those of the perpetrator stretched about 150 meters from the scene, police said. Officers responding to a call from the wife ...

It was an absolutely false claim, but totally believable. Early this year, a few news organizations reported that the brown marmorated stink bug was at the top of an Agriculture Department most-unwanted list, the nation’s No. 1 invasive species of interest, the most-wanted fugitive ...

Matt Garrison, the 2012-13 bj-league Coach of the Year, has not been retained for next season. The Niigata Albirex BB made the announcement on Monday, eight days after the team’s season ended. Albirex GM Manabu Kosuge and Garrison met early last week after the ...

She is a textbook-perfect bad girl — from her raw-edged purple mullet, scarlet lips and snarling scowl to the black leather jacket, ripped leggings and studded boots. But the model stomping across the runway carries something in her hand that gives the game away. ...

Blogs

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue on Sunday told high school students gathering signatures calling for the abolishment of nuclear weapons to listen to the voices of the atomic-bombing survivors and convey their messages to future generations. “I want you to listen to the stories of ...

The weak yen has impacted the nation’s travel industry both positively and negatively, with the number of foreign travelers to Japan rising but the number of Japanese traveling abroad falling. Foreign visitors to Japan in January-April jumped 18.0 percent from a year earlier to ...

Japan kept its position as the world’s largest creditor nation for the 22nd straight year in 2012, government data showed Tuesday, as the dollar’s gains helped inflate the value of overseas assets. Tokyo was followed by mainland China and Germany in the ranking, which ...

Motorcyclist Yoshinari Matsushita was killed during qualifying at the Isle of Man TT, event organizers announced on Tuesday. The 43-year-old Tyco Suzuki rider died after an incident late on Monday at Ballacrye on the north of the island, which lies in the Irish Sea ...

A woman has set up a small gallery in her Tokyo home to exhibit mementos of an executed killer and a replica of his prison cell in the hope that it will encourage visitors to consider how similar crimes might be prevented. The items ...

For many in this car-crazy nation, the freedom to hurtle down the famed autobahn at 190 kph or more is an inalienable right. Germany, one of the world’s top car producers, is alone among industrial countries in allowing drivers to decide for themselves how ...

The government should encourage Japan’s private sector to invest more money and at a faster pace in Africa despite the security concerns that have plagued the continent, Ethiopian Ambassador Markos Tekle Rike said ahead of the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, which ...

The government is stepping up efforts to rectify the sloppy handling of pension records, aiming to make progress by the end of the current fiscal year. In the roughly six years that have passed since the loss of some 50.95 million pension records came ...

Giant turbines churning in the wind are a rare sight in Africa — but that won’t be the case for long. Until now the meager amounts of investment in African wind energy have predominantly come from governments and foreign donors. But experts say this ...

Japan and the United States have agreed to share information on the trajectories of rapidly moving space junk, including satellite and rocket fragments, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday. “It is meaningful in that it represents a concrete case of progress in Japan-U.S. space ...

The government lifted the last no-go zone designation in Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday, more than 26 months after three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant suffered core meltdowns, but certain areas remain uninhabitable. In the town of Futaba, the last no-go zone ...

Stocks staged a rebound Tuesday, buoyed by buybacks thanks to the yen’s weakness against the dollar and the euro. The Nikkei 225 rose 169.33 points, or 1.20 percent, to finish at 14,311.98. On Monday, the key market gauge plunged 469.80 points. The Topix gained ...